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Israeli occupation forces today destroyed and uprooted dozens of olive trees in the town of Battir, west of occupied Bethlehem, WAFA News Agency reported. According to a local Palestinian activist, an...
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Blog
August 3, 2023
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Ramona Wadi
Outgoing EU Envoy to the occupied West Bank and Gaza Sven Kuhn Von Burgsdorff attracted the wrong sort of attention when he paraglided off Gaza's coast last month, purportedly...
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A Moroccan court has sentenced a blogger to five years in prison over posts on Facebook criticising the normalisation of relations with Israel that were deemed "offensive" to the...
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Iranian authorities executed 11 people from the Baluch minority on drug charges within 48 hours, according to a non-governmental organisation, raising concerns that this group has been disproportionately targeted...
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has expressed his support for more countries joining the BRICS group. Lula said in the capital, Brasilia, yesterday that he supports countries...
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Pakistan intelligence and police agencies are using Israeli spyware, Haaretz has reported."Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency and various police units in the country have been using products produced by the...
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Israeli human rights group Hamoked has revealed that the apartheid state is currently holding over 1,200 detainees with neither charge nor trial, the highest number in more than three...
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Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Tuesday banned Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem's Silwan neighbourhood from holding ceremonies to celebrate students' exam results, WAFA News Agency reported. Israeli occupation forces...
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Israeli offensives against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip increase the suffering of people with disabilities, Human Rights Watch has warned. The military offensive in May might have faded...
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Article
August 3, 2023
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Dr Adnan Abu Amer
Despite US efforts to get Saudi Arabia and Israel to normalise their relations, the process keeps faltering. Israeli officials speak of a long and important list of demands made...
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UAE President Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan met today with King Abdullah II of Jordan to review bilateral ties and explore opportunities to further strengthen the longstanding partnership between...
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Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh denied on Wednesday that he had criticised Qatar for funding the Gaza Strip's electricity plant, Al-Watan Voice has reported. Earlier this week, the...
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The President of the UAE, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, received an official invitation from his Iranian counterpart, Ibrahim Raisi, to visit Tehran. This came during a meeting...
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Water jets are being used to help people cool down as summer temperatures hit over 50 degrees Celsius in Iraq
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The Bank of Israel raised it warning level of the threat to Israel's financial system on Wednesday, citing uncertainty related to the government's judicial overhaul. According to the Financial...
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Some 1,800 public sector employees in the Syrian capital, Damascus, and its countryside resigned from their jobs during the first half of the year, the pro- regime Tishreen newspaper reported. The...
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More than 50 Israeli police volunteers have asked to suspend their voluntary service in protest against the government's judicial overhaul, local media reported on Wednesday. Ten other volunteer police...
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The Israeli protest organisation, Kaplan Force, yesterday accused National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, of "inciting" the police to use violence against them, Anadolu news agency reported. "Ben-Gvir wants to shed the...
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The ministry of health in Israel has expressed concern that more doctors appear to be planning to emigrate and work abroad, the Times of Israel reported on Wednesday. In...
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Some 71 per cent of Moroccans are willing to emigrate to advance their careers, a new poll has found. Conducted by Bayt, the largest job recruitment website in the Middle...
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Far-right Israeli Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage Minister, Amichai Eliyahu, yesterday urged Tel Aviv to annex the occupied West Bank, local media reported. The extremist minister called the Green Line, which separates the Palestinian territories occupied in 1948 – now Israel -from those occupied...
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Article
On 25 July, 1994, the State of Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, after a spell of negotiations, signed the Washington Declaration in which they committed to signing...
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Article
August 2, 2023
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Thomas Suarez
During much of 1948, Palestinians driven from their homes by the violence of that terrible year took safety in what could reasonably be called refugee camps; camps for people...
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Iran's Navy has unveiled new vessels equipped with missiles possessing a range of 600 kilometres, amid increasing tensions in the waters of the Gulf. According to the semi-official Tasnim...
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Firms in Israel and Saudi Arabia have signed a joint venture agreement to advance the Gulf Kingdom's transition to solar energy, in a rare public deal between the two...
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Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard launched a surprise military drill Wednesday on disputed islands in the Persian Gulf as the US military increased its presence in the region, AP reports. According...
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Palestinians say that the historic town of Sebastia, located in the Occupied West Bank, is facing the threat of "Judaisation" by Israel, Anadolu Agency reports. The town is designated...
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Article
August 2, 2023
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Maria Mansab
Geopolitical events in the Middle East, as well as the recent visit of the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, to Iran for nuclear...
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More than 2,000 Palestinian-Americans have travelled into or through Israel since it eased conditions for them at border crossings as part of a bid to achieve a visa waiver deal with...
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Irfan discusses her latest book 'Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the international refugee system' in which she looks at how refugee groups are important actors in global politics and not just aid recipients
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As Israel's government pushes through judicial reforms that have convulsed the nation with mass protests and warnings of civil unrest, a core component of the fragile governing coalition has little...
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The Israeli Education Ministry yesterday banned the grassroots organisation, Parents Circle-Families Forum (PCFF), which comprises bereaved Israeli and Palestinian families, from arranging activities at schools. The decision was based...